Premium
Anesthesia for a thoracic BB gun injury
Author(s) -
MISSELDINE SHAD,
AUGUST DAVID A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2010.03306.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gunshot injury , tamponade , medical emergency , surgery , anesthesia
Summary Pediatric anesthesiologists care for children with penetrating trauma from nonpowder (BB and pellet) guns. We present the case of a 9‐year‐old boy who required urgent median sternotomy for cardiac tamponade after sustaining a close‐range BB gun injury to the chest. After summarizing the epidemiology of nonpowder gun injuries in children, we clarify the nomenclature, ballistics, and mechanisms of these guns, discuss the tendency to minimize these kinds of injuries, explain bullet embolization, and review (by body area) current clinical management issues.